Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Is there any friendship, without forgiveness?

The endless thing in the world is Love.That is Beautiful.

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.

Ask yourself this question both for current and possible future commitments: If I say yes to this, what am I saying no to?

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with you will not do much.

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'